We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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But because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one’s role in society, and the relation between the two.
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More data is not always the answer.
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When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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A missional theology…appl ies to the whole of life of every believer.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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